Vampires are everywhere and another new one is ready to take up residence on your computer. The Charlaine Harris casual game Dying for Daylight has just been released today (February 11, 2011). That name sounds familiar. Oh, right, she’s the author of all those Sookie Stackhouse vampire romance novels. You know, the Southern Vampire Mysteries that inspired that big Showtime series True Blood. Well, you probably won’t see any familiar faces in Dying for Daylight, but they may be references. Especially since Dahlia, the heroine, is a minor character in Sookie’s story…

First there is a great selection of Kinect games for $49.99 including Dance Central and Kinectimals along with several others. And the Kinect itself is now available for $149.99 or you can bundle it with the system for $299.99…

The finalists have been selected for the Video Game Voters Network badge contest, now it’s up to us to narrow it down to the winner.

The VGVN is a website dedicated to stand up for gamers’ rights. If there are any political or other matters that effect the sale of video games, or effect our ability to choose what we want to play, the VGVN is there to back us up.

Earlier in August 2010, the VGVN asked its members and anyone else with artistic talent to submit a badge design that will be used to promote it’s site. They, from the tons of entries, they narrowed it down to their top 10 favorites and have left it up to use to pick the best one. The one with the most votes will be the winner and receive a $750 Best Buy gift card. The second-place winner will receive a $250 Best Buy gift certificate.

There’s a new games-related event in town. The first annual Toy, Game, and Technology Summit will take place on September 22-23, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. This summit will allow those in the toy, video game, and tech (hence the name) industries to brainstorm new ideas, network, and discuss their respective businesses.

After five years of successful growth and a following of 1.5 million, The Mafia Boss‘s creator and Managing Director of Just Fun Softwares, Larbi Belrhiti, has much to celebrate since the game’s May 5, 2005, launch. Gamertell talks to Belrhiti to try and learn exactly why the game is so dern addictive…

Fans have a love-hate relationship with movie adaptations of popular video games. For every successful transition, for example Silent Hill, there’s an In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale or Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Chances are, the movie isn’t going to live up to the game.

There’s a pattern though, found among the more successful video game movie adaptations. Look at the Resident Evil, Tomb Raider or Silent Hill movies. What do all three of these movies have in common? Not female protagonists, though that is a common tie. All three movies or movie series don’t strictly follow the game. Instead, they follow the spirit of the games.

Silent Hill is loosely adapted from the original Silent Hill movie, throwing in an occasional element from Silent Hill II as well. Tomb Raider possesses the same character and premise, but doesn’t try to exactly mimick any specific Tomb Raider games. The Resident Evil series of movies contains scenarios and characters from the games…

Fans of The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series will have another chance to talk to the books author Michael Scott through Gaiai Online on May 26, 2009, but Gamertell go to him first. find out what he had to say about promoting his books through Gaia Online, chatting with Gaia fans and freebies for his Gaian fans…

A frightening world has just opened on Sony’s PlayStation HOME and I do warn you. It’s not for the faint at heart. On Thursday, May 7, 2009, the world of Siren: Blood Curse opened featuring the swamp scene from the game as a lounge and an entrance to the hospital complete with a crazy nurse behind the counter challenging you to escape the hospital within 5 minutes. Bodies of victims and zombie nurse (called Shinto) standees stand in front of the hospital for photo ops for those players with the camera feature on their virtual PSP. To play just see the nurse as you enter the Ward of Despair and be prepared to move like the wind.

Once inside the replica of the hospital’s first floor five players must work together to gather the missing items, distract the shinto (zombie nurses) and escape the basement as fast as they can armed with only a flashlight…

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A new trailer for From Software’s Ninja Blade for the Xbox 360,was unveiled at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. The trailer features an individual with dual swords and a grappling hook traversing a monster infested city.

While this may cause gamers to immediately think of Ninja Gaiden, From Software has enough experience under its belt as the developers of titles including…

We all have bad habits we’re trying to free ourselves from. Whether its drinking, speeding, or in my case caffeine and chocolate. One of the more popular vices everyone would like to see vanish is smoking. Yep, down with the nicotine sticks, no more dancing with cancer these days. But if you have friends who smoke like I do, asking them to stop will result in their telling you to ‘butt’ out or blow that defiant puff in your face.

It’s a habit that people find difficult to shake, especially if they’ve been smoking for quite a long time, rendering the nicotine patches, gums and carrot sticks useless. But in Canada, members of the Allen Carr Team – founded by anti-smoking guru Allen Carr – found a way to help smokers break their habit with the help of a Nintendo DS.